The Last Rendezvous Contributor(s): Plantagenet, Anne (Author), Wood, Willard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1590512782 ISBN-13: 9781590512784 Publisher: Other Press (NY) OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Biographical - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2009023472 |
Physical Information: 0.93" H x 5.6" W x 8.16" (0.73 lbs) 304 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "Women are not supposed to write; yet I write." -Marceline Desbordes-Valmore In 1817, at the late age of thirty-three, Marceline Desbordes, the actress and Romantic poet-the only woman counted by Paul Verlaine among his po tes maudits, or "accursed poets," a group that included Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, and Alfred de Vigny-marries Prosper Valmore, a fellow actor who brings love and stability to her tumultuous life. Such stability is short-lived, however: When she meets Henri de Latouche, an influential man of letters, they soon begin a passionate affair. Although their tryst does not last more than a year, their relationship survives through letters and memory. It sparks inspiration in Marceline's work and leads her to create some of the most beautiful poetry in French literature. A talented poet, a romantic woman, a passionate lover, a nurturing mother, and a child at heart, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore is rescued from obscurity through Plantagenet's dazzling writing in this fictionalized biography. The book will include a selection of Desbordes-Valmore's poems in the original French and in an English translation by the Pulitzer Prize--winning poet Louis Simpson. |